At least, if you happen to be a San Francisco liberal, whose supposed commitment to “tolerance” often winds exposing you as a lying, fraudulent, bigoted hypocrite.
A controversy has been re-ignited this week as ten new ads go up on San Francisco Muni buses containing quotes used by terrorists.
“Killing Jews is worship that draws us closer to Allah,” reads one of the ads, which has people debating the line between free speech and hate speech.
“The purpose of our campaign is to show the reality of Jihad, the root causes of terrorism. Using the exact quotes and text that they use,” said Pamela Geller of the American Freedom Defense Institute.
Several San Francisco city leaders, including District Attorney George Gascon, have condemned the campaign.
“San Francisco won’t tolerate Islamophobic bigotry,” said Gascon. “The only thing necessary for evil to prevail is for good people to look the other way and do nothing.”
And what Gascon has decided to do (having first determined himself to be a good person, and though I doubt he realizes it) is suggest that terrorism and Islam are one and the same, lest he wouldn’t be conflating “Islamophobic bigotry” with a battle to expose what it is Islamist terrorists believe, using their own words to illustrate it.
Board of Supervisors President David Chiu said the American Freedom Defense Initiative is made of “well-known hate extremists” and said he is introducing a resolution at Tuesday’s board meeting to denounce the ads.
“Well-known hate extremists”? Is that even English? Because it sounds like an attempt at one of those super-long compound German words. In which case, if that’s what he’s going for, I’d like to suggest he go with “well-known fringe hate extremists whose extremist hate fringes the outward fringes of extremist hate.” Just for emphasis.
Incidentally, it’s instructive to note that one becomes a “well-known hate extremist” having first been labeled “hate extremists” by progressives and un-indicted co-conspirators in Islamist terrorism cases, who then cite their myriad previous repetitions of the charge as proof that the “hate extremists” are indeed “well-known” to be such. It’s a kind of libelous tautology, but it’s one that passes intellectual muster among such types.
Geller said the ads were a response to another bus ad campaign earlier this year by the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
That campaign sought to disassociate the word “jihad” with violence and reclaim its meaning as “the struggle,” which is a central tenet of Islam.
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“They’re holding a press conference to denounce … my pointing out the truth,” she said. “The purpose of our ads is to show the purpose of
jihad.”“I am merely using high-profile Muslims and their own words. How does that paint every Muslim with the same brush? I don’t understand that,” Geller said.
Because, dear, the truth must be tempered or kept hidden to protect the feelings of professional grievance groups. And there is nothing progressive politicians like more than to be seen as supportive of “victim groups” — provided those groups are somehow Other.
Sadly, I hear that even CPAC, which is featuring Jeb Bush this year, has been worn down and has adopted a similar posture.
Ironically, it is a self-described liberal commentator to the story who hits the nail directly on the head:
It’s ironic that it’s being labeled “hate speech,” since they are all quotes from “Islamic Scholars”. That is precisely the point that Geller’s organization is trying to point out. If George Gasgone means what he says, then he is on the wrong side of this conflict. Are my fellow Liberals really this clueless?
Unfortunately, it would seem so, yes.
(h/t JHo)
I would weep for what has happened to this country, but I’m out of tears.
Geller sure knows how to out-Alinsky the Left. How soon before some little Mona Eltahawy covers those signs in spray paint, stating it’s “right” of free expression?
Irony.
I think willfully ignoring the literal words of the enemy is the very definition of “look the other way and do nothing.”
Also, a liberal quotes Burke. One wonders if he thinks he’s clever, using the language of “the Other” against him, or if he’s just clueless. Place your bets.
Also, somewhere Mark Steyn shakes his head, sadly, and wonders when exactly our Northern border drifted so far south.
I wonder if CPAC will have new seating arraignments?
Off is the general direction in which George Gascon and David Chiu should fuck.
“San Francisco won’t tolerate Islamophobic bigotry,” said Gascon
Islamophobia – hatred or fear of Muslims
Bigotry – stubborn and complete intolerance of any creed, belief, or opinion that differs from one’s own.
Help me out here, wouldn’t an Islamophobic bigot have no tolerance of someone who hated Muslims? Is this what he really means?
/sarc … /snark
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Anti-terrorist gets their panties in a wad. Anti-joooooooooooo, not so much.
Do you remember when it was racist to make note of our President’s middle name?
Good times.
Cognitive dissonance as a way of life.
Robert Spencer: Why I am not a conservative
PDF of the Inspector General’s Review of the Operations of the Voting Rights Section of the Civil Rights Division
J. Christian Adams’ comments
at best these are kinda obscure hate extremists I think I only know Pam cause I run in hate extremist circles online
intolerance of intolerance is intolerable.
I’ve had all I can stands, I can’t stands no more
Hamas is not obscure, hf, neither is Hezbollah nor the Imams of Iran.
MEMRI has been covering the anti-Jew/WesternCiv television of Arab-“Palestinians” for years and the quotes on the SF buses are ubiquitous on it.
no no in the article the goober says American Freedom Defense Initiative is made of well known hate extremists
they’re probably the ones what put all the nitrites in the processed meat
hateful meat-tainting bastards
It was Hormel Meats, owned by festive gay and former ambassador James Hormel what put the nitrates in the Spam and Vienna sausages.
he must’ve had a really good reason I guess
Bad meat kills you even quicker than processed meat.
So does starving, for that matter.
I love Spam and Potted Meat, never been a big fan of Viennas. The ones in BBQ or hot sauce are okay, but a potted meat and fresh tomato sandwich is a wonderful thing.
At least in America Billy Joel is still an extraordinarily cool dude provided he’s not driving or getting married or doing other dangerous things.
So, we have that going for us.
What’s not to love? A few cans of Spam, crackers and some Cheez in a can and you’re good to go on a camping trip or when you’re snowed in.
That’s okay.
Diced Spam and scrambled eggs were a camping standard. If dad was cooking it was pretty much guaranteed.
I can’t hack the Viennas today, but it’s almost impossible to find ones that aren’t made out of chicken.
They were standard camping, fishing, and drive-in movie fare when I was a kid.
We went to the drive-in a lot — big family, kids got in free, and you could bring in your own snacks without getting the stink eye.
i can hit the vienna sausages cause I understand them I have a can of spam but it just sits there cause I don’t understand it very well
i had it off the kogi truck before and it was tasty
and then I think me and Mr. JD and company had it with fois gras at animal
yum!
I keep waiting for an animal friend to come from out of town so i can go back
the last friend I had come stay from out of town had one of those stomach-alterations and she was super weird about food and just a nasty person besides so I don’t talk to her anymore
she sent me a gift to apologize for her behaviour and I tried to be forgiving like jesus then I texted her on my trip with some pics and she texted back and said she was in the same state where I was let’s meet up!
I said ohnoes sweetie you’re going west-east I’m going north-south I call you next week
and I never did
and I realized right then never would talk to her again
life is too short for weird stomach-altered freaks what scoff at everything
plus she was the biggest most rabid obamawhore I ever met my whole life
and that’s saying something
and that is the story of the spam and the vienna sausages
Islamophobia would, by definition, be an irrational fear of Islam. History and modern events prove that it is not irrational to fear Islamists.
Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller continue their fight for freedom (of speech, thought, and belief).
Being perceived to be in the way of any leftist whim is hateful even if it occurs by accident.
Rather than shooting the messenger, maybe we should pay attention to the message.
But thank goodness that there are places like conservative conventions, where the truth is discussed openly and freely…oh wait, never mind.
Pretty much all meat that can be shipped is “processed” as far as hf would be concerned, including the andouille that I am about to order.
And the tasso, I have little doubt. Bastards.
Pretty much all meat that can be shipped is “processed” as far as hf would be concerned, including the andouille that I am about to order.
Andouille? About the only way I love eating tripe. My Breton chum brings me some now and again. That’s what friends are for.
Andouille has tripe in it? I thought it was just a sausage. I like tripe in Pepper Pot soup and menudo.
This is impossible.
4 shot and killed in upstate New York
This was supposed to be fixed. How could this possibly happen in New York?
Uh, huh. Just like goetta and scrapple.
“The only thing necessary for evil to prevail is for good people to look the other way and do nothing.”
“…Which is why we must crucify this woman with the nerve to stand up against the evil in our midst. Why can’t she do nothing, like the rest of our peons?”
Scrapple is one of the foods served in Hell. I am convinced of that.
Andouille is yummy.
Andouille is mostly pork butt. The outside, muscular kind of pork butt. Andouillette, on the other hand, is all tripe.
Menudo is great for hangovers. Makes a great breakfast January 1st.
“New Kids on the Block” on the other hand, not so much.
Menudo is the bomb. Even if you aren’t hungover.
New Pope is inna house!
Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina. Hence forth known as Pope Francis.
He’s a Jesuit and a bad-ass.
Andouille is mostly pork butt. The outside, muscular kind of pork butt. Andouillette, on the other hand, is all tripe.
I think this must be a regional difference. In Normandy and Brittany, the primary distinction between the two is size; andouillette being a smaller version, both comprised of chitlins and/or tripe.
processed meat is fun to eat just not too often or you’re in a coffin
Cajun anduille is definitely not tripe; it’s meat, fat and spices in a roughly 80/20/trace ratio. Cajun andouille is sometimes spicy-hot, and always smoked.